From the course: Time Management for Managers
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Establish 1:1 meetings
- Interruptions are a massive productivity killer in the workplace. These switches in attention can chew up at least 28% of your day. That's an entire work week every single month. I've found the most common source of these switches in attention come from quick questions. I call them the dreaded double Q. You're working on your email and someone calls and says, "I'm sorry, I've got just a quick question." Or they knock on your door and they say, "Just a quick question." These little, quick questions are important, yet, most of us are handling them in an inefficient way. How can we handle all these quick questions, yet still be polite and responsive as a manager? What the hammer is to a carpenter, the one-to-one meeting is to a manager. It's a pattern that we establish where we meet with people on a regular basis to handle every quick question. Think of one person that you manage, someone that you have the most questions for and they have the most questions for you. Now, how often…
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